Overview:
This programme will provide a comprehensive guide to risk management at the strategic level, focusing on organisational effectiveness, managing programmes and projects and importantly, operational risk. It will demonstrate how risk management can be implemented and operated successfully within both public and private sector settings.
Learning objective
You will be able to:
- Improve your organisation’s understanding of the relationship between energy systems and sustainable development
- Obtain greater capacity to ensure energy supply and sustainability whilst pursuing investment growth and profitability
- Help build a consensus across the energy/utility sectors concerning effective energy management through sustainable development
- Overcome sustainable development challenges encountered in daily operations
- Promote energy efficiency and renewables, encourage technologies that offer alternatives for clean and safe energy supply and use
- Find effective ways for developing and transitional economy country energy providers to avoid and reduce the wasteful and destructive factors that have historically characterised energy supply in OECD economies
Course content
- Understanding the global setting; climate change, energy suppliers and the environment
- Emerging economic and strategic instruments to deal with energy and environmental management problems
- Corporate responsibility; the role of energy suppliers in achieving sustainable development and ‘green energy’
- The socio-economic impact of environmental change and sustainable development
- Using cleaner energy systems; carbon reduction and the use of renewable sources
- Understanding technologies that improve efficiency of transmission, distribution, and end use of energy
- An exploration of the application of international environmental standards to your local context